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Victoria Amelina wins with her unfinished book Looking at Women Looking at War while Donal Ryan takes the award for political fiction with an intimate portrait of an Irish town A novelist killed in the Ukraine war has won the Orwell prize for political writing. Victoria Amelina, who died in July 2023 from injuries sustained in a Russian bombing of a restaurant in Kramatorsk, won the prize with her unfinished book Looking at Women Looking at War. Continue reading...

Tipperary writer says win ‘very unexpected’ for novel that explores the 21st century problems of a small, tight-knit community in Ireland

Two years after her tragic death in a Russian missile strike, Ukrainian author Victoria Amelina was posthumously awarded on June 25 the prestigious U.K. Orwell Prize for her book “Looking at Women, Lo...

The Orwell Prize for Political Writing and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction reward books that meet “George Orwell’s own ambition ‘to make political writing into an art.'&#82…

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Communications and marketing agency Collective Wisdom, launched by Truda Spruyt in September last year, has appointed two new associates –Angela Allan (née Robertson) and Matt Hall.

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Writers JM Coetzee, Annie Ernaux, Kazuo Ishiguro and Olga Tokarczuk are among the laureates imploring the prime minister to act on behalf of the British Egyptian political prisoner

Award-winning Irish poet Paula Meehan introduces us to the poetry collections and pamphlets that made the 2024 PEN Heaney Prize shortlist

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Avi Shlaim has won the £2,000 PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2024 for Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew (Oneworld).